Following a helpful suggestion, The Chap takes his GoPro and makes a plexiglass sideplate for his Bavarian 1869 Werder rifle, and gets another chance to talk about it. It is his favourite rifle, after all.

In this video, he goes through the entire operating cycle. The Bloke, while editing this...

Since the available .577/480" ammo didn't fit in the available Martini-Henry rifle when making the Great British Rates of Fire Disaster Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3YiJDgddWk

... a friend of the channel who goes by the name of Stan_Da_Bout on the Army Rumour Service offered to...

In an earlier vid on the Früwirth carbine, many people remarked the offset firing pin. Here's the reason for it... Hint: it's in the original 11.5x36R ammo.

The Chap takes a look at a Früwirth M1872 Austrian Gendarmerie Carbine. Not a Fruhwirth, Frühwirth, Fruwirt, Frühwirt or any other wierd spelling, but Früwirth. This was a critical developmental step on the way to the Kropatschek M1886.

Bono estente! Down in Bella Italia, Bloke meets up with Kevin of SBAM shooting for a spot of shooting and banter on the range. BotR combining with SBAM is a bit like crossing the beams in Ghostbusters (the original one), and disaster would have to ensue. By definition. Ammo didn't turn up, and wh...

The Chap takes you through the 1871 Belgian Rifle, a very Winchester High Wall falling block type of single shot black powder affair, built for the Belgian Civil Guard and widely adopted in South America

The Chap takes you through how original French Chassepot M1866 paper needlefire cartridges were made, and how he does it. Contains lashings of black powder, and better-than-a-Dryse cartridges!

The Chap takes a look at his muzzleloading Swedish 1815/38 flintlock musket, and sees what it can do on the range.

Black powder can be fun!

Those big old rimfires are wallhangers no more. Learn how to get them booming once again!

Here is my nifty way of making what you need and without expensive tools and basic machining skills. Applicable for feeding not only Milbank-Amslers large and small, but also Swiss Peabodys, Vetterlis, W...

The Chap presents a very good, neat way to make paper tubes for your Dreyse or Chassepot needlefire rifle!

Earlier videos on the topic:

Full luxury Chassepot version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iahThVlF7QI
Simple Chassepot version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr1cN9FXA9E

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Following on from the Chap's earlier vid on getting a Swiss Milbank Amsler barking again, this time he delves in true BotR nerd style into the surprisingly fast conception, modification and adoption of the Milbank-Amsler trapdoor / tabatière system by the Swiss at the close of the 1860s. Both the...

A quick review of the main features of a lovely Martini Henry MkI rifle, featuring some 2nd and 3rd pattern upgrades. I'm sure the real afficionados will have more to say.

By popular request, here is my attempt at a mad minute with the "lightning rifle". It took a while to get it running due to mechanical issues and sourcing reliable ammo components but we got there in the end!

3:10 - Shut up and show me the mad minute!

Organised by @Riflechair in Canada, Bloke and Chap attempt the Cabin Fever Challenge 2023 in Division 5 (Muzzleloading) at 50m on an 8" target. How did they get on with Chap's French 1859 Chasseur carbine, loading from as-original-as-possible paper cartridges?

Full info on the Challenge here...

Sorry for the clickbaity title. Here we have a gunsmith-made Swiss Jagdstutzer Martini rifle in 7.5x55 Swiss GP11. Kinda as close as you'll get to a real Martini-Henry sniper rifle, which is inexplicably contained in the game Battlefield 1 BF1 for no apparent reason...

The gentlemen of the Kentucky Victorian Riflemen instigated a 5 round speed loading challenge this year and invited Chappy to participate. He of course stepped up with a French rifled musket in a manly calibre!

Here we have a heroic guest contribution featuring a Snider three band rifle all the way from Alberta Canada which came out of an unrelated competition, however it was too good not to share with you as part of our single shot military black powder cartridge rifle series. Huzzah for Bob!

Chappy's tools and skills have come along a long way since his first attempt at reviving the chonky 18mm rimfire case and cartridge. Time to give it another shot. Will he succeed of will they blow up in his face?

For the accompanying nerdy machining vid, see our sister channel elsewhere.

We return to the single shot BP military cartridge rifle mad minute with the Swiss Peabody, representative of any of the Peabody series. This particular rifle is of course chambered for 10.4x38R and is fitted with a rimfire breech block but I have dropped in a spare breech block from a CF Spanish...

Here we have a great submission from Åmund in Norway who kindly gave us permission to share his mad minute. The RB was much requested in the comments of the prior rifles so it's fantastic to be able to bring it to you at last.

Thanks to Robert of Gruenig and Elmiger (not allowed to link, sorry), I got to put one of these antediluvian Martinistutzer target rifles in front of the camera! This one was originally in 7.5x55 GP11 and was converted to .22 lr. Tipping block: what's not to like? Basically a Martin-actioned accu...

Finally we are able to present you with a mad minute featuring the trapdoor rifle, not thanks to Bloke or Chap, but rather thanks to one of our awesome fans who took it upon himself to have a go.

You did the rifle justice. Fantastic run! The BotR community thanks you Oliver!

Chap flogs a dead horse by persisting to find an easy way to shoot with the Dreyse M55 Langblei. The sabot is the main sticking point as the original method of rolling and pressing paper and card is a long process with often varying results on target between batches. To try and solve this issue C...

The advent of the percussion era and developments in gun carriages brings about the design of a new short handy musketoon for French artillery crews. Issued from 1829 onwards, initially as a smoothbore flintlock, the musketoon evolves through the final stages of muzzleloading technology.

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